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Hopeful Monsters
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Hopeful Monsters
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Hiromi Goto
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:176 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 202,Width 145 |
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| Category/Genre | Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781551521572
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| Classifications | Dewey:FIC |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Arsenal Pulp Press
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| Imprint |
Arsenal Pulp Press
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| Publication Date |
1 January 2005 |
| Publication Country |
Canada
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Description
In these devastating short stories, the hopeful monsters in question are those who will not be tethered by familial duty nor bound by the ghosts of their past. Home becomoes fraught, reality a nightmare as Hiromi Goto weaves her characters through tales of domestic crises and cultural dissonance. Goto's characters are imbued with the light of myth and magic realism. With humour and keen insight, Goto makes the familiar seem strange and deciphers those moments when the idyllic skews into the absurd and the sublime.
Author Biography
Hiromi Goto is the author of the novels The Kappa Child, winner of the James Tiptree Jr Award, and Chorus of Mushrooms, winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for First Book (Canada-Caribbean) and co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award, and the children's book The Water of Possibility. She lives in Burnaby, B.C.
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